Re: Possible haskell-build-system problem on core-updates

[Eric Bavier]

On 2016-01-17 14:48, address@hidden wrote:
> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > Many haskell package builds are failing on core-updates:
> >
> >   http://hydra.gnu.org/eval/108790?filter=ghc
> >
> > We see this error in many cases:
> >
> >   ERROR: In procedure regexp-exec: Wrong type argument in position 2
> >   (expecting string): #<eof>
>
> This is likely related to e17d5133.  Eric, WDYT?  :-)

I'm investigating this right now.  I think the ghc update since e17d5133 
changed something in the package conf files that's throwing off the 
code.  I think I know how to fix it, but want to verify first.

`~Eric